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The House of the Hanged man at Auvers, 1872 – 1873, by Paul Cezanne. Why was this painting dismissed so scathingly by some critics when it was exhibited with the Independents in 1874?

Paul Cezanne was a French artist and post-impressionist. (1839 – 1906) This essay seeks to determine why Paul Cezanne's exhibited painting with the Independents 1874 of the Hanged man at Auvers, was dismissed harshly by critics.

Cezanne’s style was different from all other artists in his field. The painting may have suffered negative critique most likely for the reason; it could have been viewed as ambiguous and was misinterpreted. (Reputations, Book 1. pg. 63) ‘Jean Prouvaire’ was one of the critics who were against Cezanne’s artwork. Who passionately expressed, no jury would ever imagine the possibility of accepting a single work by Cezanne. (Reputations, Book 1, pg. 60) The delineation of the artwork could be viewed as awkward and difficult to construe. The painting is not adequately delineated. The cottage looks as if it blends into a road or a path. It is difficult to interpret whether it is the cottage solely or besides it, it does have a road or path merged into the left side of the cottage. This state of immediate confusion could be one of the reasons why it was dismissed, as in the 19th Century this could have been challenging as other artists exercised unquestionable traditional principles and for those adhering and wanting to uphold traditional standards of artistic skills and ability, viewing Cezanne’s painting would have been without value. (Reputations, Book 1, pg. 63)

The composition of the painting creates an incoherent illusion. It is hard to sense the broad and deep pictorial space looking at the picture. (Reputations, Book 1, pg. 61) The picture plane is angled to the left. The nearest vertical point contained by space is near the forefront of the picture, to the left. Most of the pictures...

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Paul Cézanne and His Influence on Cubism
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object “in focus”, and it’s lack of three-dimensionality just exacerbates the analysis process. But
art wasn’t always like this. Artists from the same and surrounding regions a few years prior were
not creating art as abstract as the Cubists. In fact, the preceding artwork was neither abstract nor
ambiguous in the slightest, so why the change? Cubist art deviated almost completely from the
prior art forms, and at the forefront of this new form of art was a new way of thinking sparked by
scientific findings by Albert Einstein and a Neo-Impressionist artist by the name of Paul
Cézanne.
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helped him succeed in the vicious world of art. Like most artists of his time, Cézanne attended
college to study art, but was simultaneously enrolled at the University of Aix to study law under
the command of his father. Following his dual enrollment, he enrolled in the Académie Suisse to
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Paul Cezanne was a french artist who painted a variety of things. These
include many different kinds of fruit often placed on a type of cloth. Also
he painted skulls. Some of the time these two styles were combined to
make very unique pieces of art work. These are some facts about him:
­ He was a diabetic and had a depression problem.
­ He was buried in Aix, the same place he was born.
­ In 1906 Paul collapsed while painting in the open during a thunderstorm.
One week later, on October 15, he died from pneumonia.
­ Before he met Camille Pissaro he mostly painted dark pictures.
­ He married Marie­Hortense Fiquet a french artists model in 1886.
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